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Killing Plato

By Chantal Maillard

Killing Plato

By Chantal Maillard

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The two sequences of this book form a braided ars poetica: "Killing Plato" and "Writing." The first is a numbered sequence of twenty-eight poems organized around an accident: a pedestrian has been hit by a truck and is dying in the middle of the road. Various characters appear-the philosopher Michel Serres, Robert Musil, a woman smoothing out her stocking, the truck driver, a boy on a balcony, the Spanish poet Jesús Aguado. At the bottom of the page another tale unfolds: a woman bumps into an old friend, a male poet who has written a book called Killing Plato about "a woman who has been knocked over by the force of a sound." "Writing," the second part, unfolds as a lyrical meditation on mortality and literary production.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
64
Release Date:
2019-11-26
Publication Date:
2019-11-26
Publisher:
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0811228991
ISBN13:
9780811228992
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
114 g
Height:
154 cm
Width:
237 cm
Thickness:
8 cm
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